Florida · Private foundation
Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $21k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $9,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $21k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $30k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $21k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $12k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $3k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $3k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $2k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $3k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foster Alumni Mentors | $10,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Harmony Acres Equestrian Center | $7,665 | 3 | 0% |
| Colorado Homeless Families Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Colorado Mesa University Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mesa County Valley School District 51 | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope Hospice and Community Services Inc | $3,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Riverside Educational Center | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| John Austin Cheley Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Care Foundation | $2,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Mesa Youth Services Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc · Rocky Mountain Health Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Bacon Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · United Way of Mesa County Inc · International Association of Lions 3602 · Av Hunter Trust Incorporated · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc
How this is measured
Compare Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust give?
- Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust reported 7 grants totaling $21,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Education (16%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Foster Alumni Mentors ($10k), Harmony Acres Equestrian Center ($8k), Colorado Homeless Families Inc ($4k).
- Does Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Western Colorado Community Foundation Inc, Rocky Mountain Health Foundation.
- Where is Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust based?
- Gary and Colettie Cranston Family Charitable Trust is based in FL.
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